Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9349ae3c6ef9fec2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-02 13:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 96a41a6a741b64f994e190e00669685d SHA-1: 5f46dca5fd6d6749c1e72e0ee107b62c9bfb6151 SHA-256: 9349ae3c6ef9fec2b1ed7e5718c1f54291bad6eaf5337c1311767b324eaeb3ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/wimepiguma.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/79771092030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/kopopujikigegasexerifenad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enfersalus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69170102115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4052c08bb7622439103734d10c2450f3/70858355698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86343159712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/3898844585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb2a218e34---fikifarutokukifena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089616ee1db9---dokukifovev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kururlaub-ungarn.de/bilder/files/mubamapozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/49115099087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/42254930779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/batalewubefafawokubona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610600b2d0d19---43218723052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865894898fb---narabadevigikezivowodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7f44c2507e---wokeruluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unrr6i0oahu4kjmuaf208tfifg/3720280092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriodiprogettazione-ve.it/userfiles/files/girikafirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0711e51150c0c638f5a95f7ac89d60/tutaxakizuwawawitosajede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/marajewagiremazudofizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9e83ed7e4b2c84003f1254ae3514a28/84173491985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071db2163602---natokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a815grh8aptivlircburd36u/muvujijivipele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/501ct6sa7tii6tjedvjuer1ch7/76362060163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/47310939421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/72065973444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+hangouts+dialer+defaultPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000100e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000118fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FB 17392 bytes
SHA-256: f57c711e4fbad3fdef70e37a81579cfc47f438ef96b1978c4949cfa1bdcc40c3
font_02_sfnt_off000146d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146D9 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 70507544d234f3bb72b032e64eff4ae8931cfc2a9c64f5126101ed9fa4d8fd23